"By comparison, 500 GHz is more than 250 times faster than today's cell phones, which typically operate at approximately 2 GHz, according to the organizations."
I think that speaks for itself.
it certainly does. finally i can replace this beowulf cluster of 2000 cellphones with one simple-to-maintain device
My Titanium PowerBook is more powerful than your average desktop (except for the slow HD). It handles multimedia perfectly and has TV and audio outputs. I haven't gotten it to choke on a single game yet.
given that most of the games available for a Powerbook were designed 3-4 years ago, i can totally believe that you haven't seen it choke on a single game yet. Nethack only takes so much juice to play:)
seriously though, i wouldn't take my Powerbook anywhere near a 40-person raid encounter in WoW
Put a krona (Swedish crown, a coin similar to a US quarter) into a coffee cup. Add coffee until you can't see the krona. Then, add vodka until you can see the krona again.
for best effect, keep pouring and drinking until you can see two kronas
their core revenue stream is targetted ads, and the best way to improve that revenue stream is to create gee-whiz websites that people go to on a frequent basis that they can put their ads onto. gmail, google spreadsheets, and google maps are all just ways to get you to spend more time on their pages where they can show you advertisements. they make a lot of money off putting ads on other people's websites, but when the site is their own they don't even have to pay someone else a cut.
We're talking about DRM here, not a pending German invasion.
actually, i think it took much longer than 2 weeks for them to address the German invasion as well, so who knows how long it would take to get a meeting on DRM
no kidding, yet another recipe and ranking page built as a feedback loop. people download the top thing on the list to see what the hell other people liked about it. until they can include in their ranking criteria the number of people that stopped the download 20 seconds into the video, it won't really be a list of "things that people liked the most" but instead the "things that people thought they might like the most"
vast resources, a new hot algorithm out of nowhere to launch the company with. maybe they're not just working for the government, maybe Google is run by the NSA. sure would make it easier to get legal approval to search our stuff if we opt into their mail service and download their desktop search:)
Other than widespread piracy of copyrighted material there is absolutely no purpose to such lopsided connectivity (Yes, I'm sure there are those of you out there downloading Fedora DVDs every day.. riiiiight).
or just random surfing of the internet, as nearly all web browser traffic is essentially that lopsided. bittorrent is probably one of the largest mainstream sources of traffic that's not 10:1 lopsided, so your piracy argument is probably backwards.
That said once a server is setup and in production why the heck will a lack of documentation bring it down ?
It won't bring it down, but it might keep it down.
a poor understanding of how to configure the server could also mean that it is up but not totally stable, so it might stay up until some device kicks in that's misconfigured or something similar.
i rented a car a while back that had a RDS-capable radio in it (it reads an extra data stream in the content that allows it to tell you what song/artist is playing, what genre the station is, etc.), and it was fantastic. even without *any* increase in sound quality, it was great having a radio that could search for channels by genre. i live in a large city with lots of stations so i haven't scoured the dial (and stations change format all the time), so in just a 4-day rental period i discovered several new stations that i hadn't known existed. AFAIK, RDS doesn't have universal coverage yet either, but it seems like that could be really fantastic for trips where it's even harder to know what stations are available
so it seems like even if you aren't getting a huge increase in sound quality with HD Radio, the ability to pass other data-streams over the digital signal can be very useful for consumers. and a lot of us don't listen to radio nearly enough to justify paying a monthly fee, so it would be a matter of whether we could justify the cost of whatever receiver we need to decode that feed. the sad thing is that i've found it impossible to find an RDS-capable radio at a reasonable price in any of the stores around here, because the manufacturers must figure that anyone that wants to pay extra for a radio will just want to get XM or Sirius
Well, the BBC is using multicast to stream matches out to UK based residents.
Multicast is perfect for this kind of situation, and I don't think we'll see a 'meltdown' because of it.
your link seems rather sketchy on actual use of multicast :
We are actively pursuing a number of ways to minimise this type of problem. For instance by multi-casting the stream. This means we transfer it directly to an ISP and they broadcast it, which reduces the direct load on our servers.
it sounds like they *might* do that, and their description of multicast doesn't exactly match with most people's definition of the term
it seems to me that more and more people are devoted to the bottom-line these days, you can see that in the flood of "ends justifies the means" stories floating around. they just reinforce my feeling that people are awfully concerned with "what's in it for them" at all times, and now people can carry that over to posting online...they'll do it
i love how this same story keeps popping up whenever fanboys need to make a big push for their console-of-choice. when the XBox360 came out this was all over the news, with so little lead time before the consoles came into stores that Sony couldn't possibly get a word in edge-wise before lots of firstmovers had rushed to pre-order their XBox360. now we have E3, and either the XBox fanboys aren't happy with the fact that their system had a lackluster showing of a still sparse selection of games, or the Wii-heads want to promote their current favorite system.
we've enumerated lots and lots of reasons that Sony would have a very difficult time trying to lock a game to a system (e.g. multi-system homes, replacement systems), and it seems doubtful at best that they'll be able to kill an entire entrenched industry of game resellers by arranging for new laws (remember, this is business fighting business, so Congress doesn't have a built-in favorite). until we hear more details, this is a non-story
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so you're here advertising for onpoint aren't you?
seriously though, i wouldn't take my Powerbook anywhere near a 40-person raid encounter in WoW
or how about a typing tutor that worked like the Billy Jean video with your fingers doing the walking?
if there were a god, we'd have been spared from your horrible analogy
no kidding, yet another recipe and ranking page built as a feedback loop. people download the top thing on the list to see what the hell other people liked about it. until they can include in their ranking criteria the number of people that stopped the download 20 seconds into the video, it won't really be a list of "things that people liked the most" but instead the "things that people thought they might like the most"
no, silly, elf licensing fees must be paid in pixie dust
vast resources, a new hot algorithm out of nowhere to launch the company with. maybe they're not just working for the government, maybe Google is run by the NSA. sure would make it easier to get legal approval to search our stuff if we opt into their mail service and download their desktop search :)
flesh this out a bit more and your post could be the story and this waste of time at the top of the page could be someone's reply
and perhaps they can work together to finally settle the questions surrounding the existance of Dynamite as a fourth choice
i rented a car a while back that had a RDS-capable radio in it (it reads an extra data stream in the content that allows it to tell you what song/artist is playing, what genre the station is, etc.), and it was fantastic. even without *any* increase in sound quality, it was great having a radio that could search for channels by genre. i live in a large city with lots of stations so i haven't scoured the dial (and stations change format all the time), so in just a 4-day rental period i discovered several new stations that i hadn't known existed. AFAIK, RDS doesn't have universal coverage yet either, but it seems like that could be really fantastic for trips where it's even harder to know what stations are available
so it seems like even if you aren't getting a huge increase in sound quality with HD Radio, the ability to pass other data-streams over the digital signal can be very useful for consumers. and a lot of us don't listen to radio nearly enough to justify paying a monthly fee, so it would be a matter of whether we could justify the cost of whatever receiver we need to decode that feed. the sad thing is that i've found it impossible to find an RDS-capable radio at a reasonable price in any of the stores around here, because the manufacturers must figure that anyone that wants to pay extra for a radio will just want to get XM or Sirius
since you put it that way, it could just be Pigpen
userscripts has been down for at least a week, maybe people surging there nonstop since the new look was announced?
hah, now who's feeling all smart and assured of their genius!
it seems to me that more and more people are devoted to the bottom-line these days, you can see that in the flood of "ends justifies the means" stories floating around. they just reinforce my feeling that people are awfully concerned with "what's in it for them" at all times, and now people can carry that over to posting online...they'll do it
i suppose you've already answered my follow-up question :
"what kind of two-bit fight club is this?"
i love how this same story keeps popping up whenever fanboys need to make a big push for their console-of-choice. when the XBox360 came out this was all over the news, with so little lead time before the consoles came into stores that Sony couldn't possibly get a word in edge-wise before lots of firstmovers had rushed to pre-order their XBox360. now we have E3, and either the XBox fanboys aren't happy with the fact that their system had a lackluster showing of a still sparse selection of games, or the Wii-heads want to promote their current favorite system.
we've enumerated lots and lots of reasons that Sony would have a very difficult time trying to lock a game to a system (e.g. multi-system homes, replacement systems), and it seems doubtful at best that they'll be able to kill an entire entrenched industry of game resellers by arranging for new laws (remember, this is business fighting business, so Congress doesn't have a built-in favorite). until we hear more details, this is a non-story
and if someone uses this contest to come up with a shared source xbox360 hack to remove the content protection, everyone wins?